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These equations are of the divergence type: A = —divT and B = — div<5 where the
second Cauchy stress tensor T and the electric displacement S are related through the
constitutive equations
TV(y,0) = c^
kl
s
kl
{y) + e^d
k
0,
fi*(y,0) = -tPsuW + dVdjO,
where (s
k
i) is the linearized deformation tensor s
kt
(y) = (d
k
yi + diy
k
)/2. The material is
characterized by three time-independent tensors: the symmetric positive-definite tensor of
three-dimensional elasticity
(c
ufc
'),
the symmetric coupling tensor (e
,J
*) and the symmetric
positive-definite dielectric tensor (d
y
),
C
«H
=
JM
= c
ku^
3ac>0
.
c
^'
Xij
X
kl
>
a
c
X
tj
X
ij:
\/X
tj
= X
j{
G R,
e
Hk
= e
ikj^
d
a
= d
ji^
3ctd>0
. tfiXiXj > a
d
XiXi, MXi € K.
We have shown in [6] that, for a star-shaped domain fi with respect to x° 6 R
3
,
it is possible to build a control (w,w) 6 L
2
(S) x L
2
(E) acting on the whole boundary
E such that system (1) can be driven to rest after time T° = 2max
xe
jj |x
—
x°|, i.e.
y(t) = y'(t) = 0,t> T°.
The aim of this paper is to extend this approach to thin piezoelectric shells. In
section 2 we propose a new time-dependent model for Koiter-type piezoelectric shells.
In section 3 we study the properties of the homogeneous evolution problem and derive
direct and indirect inequalities obtained by the multiplier technique. This leads to an
observability condition which allows, in section 4, to establish the exact controllability
conditions. Finally, in section 5, we sum up all the results already obtained for three- and
two-dimensional structures.
2 A time-dependent model for Koiter-type piezoelec-
tric shells
In order to avoid introducing new notations, we will use the same ones for the two-
dimensional problem as for the three-dimensional problem. Thus, let
Q.
be a domain in
R
2
with boundary T of class C
4
and x = (xi, x
2
) € fi a system of curvilinear coordinates.
The middle surface 5 of the shell is given through an injective mapping ip e C
4
(f2;R
3
),
S =
<p{fl).
We assume that the vectors (a„ = d
a
ip) are linearly independent, so that they
define the tangent plane at each point of S. The reference configuration of the shell with
thickness 2e is the closure of the set
{<p(x) +
x
3
a.
3
(x),
xeQ, \x
3
\ < e}.
where a
3
=
-.
r
is the unit normal at each point of S.
|ai x a
2
|